Dr. Gordian O. Ezekwe and his team were very courageous. They were also very talented and inventive. Their achievements, which were sometimes made with other groups, include the following:

• Production of indigenous solid rocket fuel in form of pellets of various sizes determined by available metal pipes.
• Design of suitable rocket bodies including nozzles to match the solid fuel.
• Production of offensive rockets that covered a horizontal range of 5km with war heads that exploded by impact on landing as well as those that fragmented before landing. These latter types were more dangerous.
• Production of ‘Samba Ogbunigwe’ or “Ojukwu Bucket” which showered over two thousand bullets in a conical direction – a weapon that frightened opponents very much and led to long periods of ceasefire because they were forced to retreat in all fronts and take some time to study the workings of this Ogbunigwe.
• Production of shot-guns, revolvers, hand grenades and explosives of various kinds. Some of these weapons were called “marshal” or “genocide”. There were also armoured vehicles and rocket launchers too.
• Production of booby traps, ajuala (flying land mines) and landmines, otherwise known as “foot cutters”.
• Production of anti-aircraft rockets that were projected up to a vertical distance of 5km. They either fragment or explode on impact with target aircrafts.
• Adaptation and improvisation for scarce commodities in which coconut milk replaced brake fluids, a mixture of diesel and grease became engine oil and retreaded tyres were made from dead ones. There were also imitative remolding of worn-out engine parts and creation of new engines from scratch (Nwankwo, 1972:37).
• Construction of mini refineries, and,
• Production, by a subgroup, of life supporting products such as soap, liquors, wine and bread

After the manufacture of the indigenous solid fuel pellets, Dr. Gordian Ezekwe assigned members to test these pellets by firing them to determine their thrust and to check if the pellets could either be relied upon or improved upon. The solid rocket fuel was a mixture of many odds and ends including aluminum, charcoal and gun powder. These elements and compounds are mixed in accordance with a formula which was applied from memory quite often. The scientists were charged to desist from committing the verified experiments to paper. They were meant to be classified.
As the war progressed the Nigerian soldiers pushed into Owerri and Ezekwe’s group had to run to a little village a great distance away from major roads. This was in September 1968. They evacuated all their heavy and light machinery within two days. It required hard work and great brainstorming to do this. It was in this new location that the group invented the anti-aircraft rockets with a great vertical blastoff thrust which had a range of 5km and would detonate on impact. This invention led to explosions of federal aircrafts in flight. Consequently, the air raids were reduced as no federal pilot was ready to face those indigenous anti-aircraft rockets.

Most importantly, the Engineers designed refineries and refined crude oil collected in tankers from Egbema near Port Harcourt. They would distill the crude oil, separating petrol, diesel, kerosene and tar. They had built a distillation plant for separating these products. The Rocket group had the largest store of fuel and kerosene as a result and never suffered any shortage of these products during the war. This was chemistry in action. It is worthy to note that it was Dr. Ezekwe who supervised the creation of the first mini refinery using mainly this devised distillation plant. The Rocket group was able to supply fuel and kerosene to other scientists in the other branches of RaP for use in running their vehicles. Sadly, there were also moments of direct commercialization of these crude oil products. They were sold to other civilians and soldiers. These moments saved many a scientist from going hungry. In fact, the scarcity of food did not affect members of the RaP Board. For whenever there was shortage of food, any product could be sold to get it. At some points during the war, they marketed some fuel and even soap, liquor, bread and so many other things to keep on. Because of the successes of the Rocket group in building a mini refinery, other quick-minded people also did the same. There was one such refinery set up at Eziachi, near Orlu, with assistance from Dr. M.O. Chijioke of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Nigeria (Ike, 1986:47).

The production of Ogbunigwe was a quantum leap during the war. Michael Stafford (1984) reveals: “The most important weapon built was the Ogbunigwe (Ibo for "destroyers of all". These devices were also known as "Ojukwu's kettles" and were the keystone of the Rebel defense. They were made from available cooking pots filled with locally-produced explosives and miscellaneous metal products--nails, scrap iron or whatever else was on hand. The Ogbunigwe were planted in the ground (or in road beds) or abutted against trees and camouflaged. When suitable targets arrived, the mines were command detonated. They produced a tremendous explosion and proved immensely effective. Their use alone often created enough damage to rout Federal attacks.”

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With these people, biafra taught Nigeria lessons that would never be forgotten till the end of the world.

Biafra Republic would have made it if the same research carried in the area of artificial protein bore froot.
All hope is not gone as a smarter, fiecer generation of igbos are coming who will get biafra in a platter and not the legendary stupidity ipob is exhibiting by loosing innocent souls to useless dogs in uniform.

Igbo is a tribe too big and powerful to marginalise!

One of the greatest mistakes these engineers made was not researching in the area of chemical weapons.

imagine releasing some doses of sarin gas on federal troops? that would have been damn effective!

But we are promising Nigeria that this generation of Igbo's are educated, learned,versatile and can be found in advanced labs and weapons factory and industries of many advanced nations and if Nigeria tries any act of war on us again it would be genocide on the part of Nigeria.

we won't just unleash chemical weapons we will release biological weapons such as Ebola which only the Igbo man have the immunity. Nigeria be warned.

These Scientists were the backbone of Biafra. With Biafra blockaded and Gowon recieving huge shipments of ammunition from Britain and Russia, Biafra had to be inventive.

I salute all these Biafran scientists for their great contribution to the Biafran war effort. Without them, Biafra would not have stood.

Can u imagine wot would have happend if all this great scientist had migrated to other African countries down south battling for independence or control from colonial powers,countries like zimbabwe,congo,Angola ad co..partner with them, produce weapons for them and use it as an opportunity to deal with britain and other western countries for supporting Nigeria.
They would have naturalized in those countries,it's not a must that they must produce weapons in Nigeria ad for Nigeria,by now they would have enhanced there skills ad make good money from it by selling weapons in that country to other African countries at war.

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Igbo is a tribe too big and powerful to marginalise!

One of the greatest mistakes these engineers made was not researching in the area of chemical weapons.

imagine releasing some doses of sarin gas on federal troops? that would have been damn effective!

But we are promising Nigeria that this generation of Igbo's are educated, learned,versatile and can be found in advanced labs and weapons factory and industries of many advanced nations and if Nigeria tries any act of war on us again it would be genocide on the part of Nigeria.

we won't just unleash chemical weapons we will release biological weapons such as Ebola which only the Igbo man have the immunity. Nigeria be warned.

The greatest mistake they made was giving up after the war..They would have worked with other African govt..Back in dem days the African man produced nothing talkless of weapons so Any African govt would have bin more dan willing to work with dem..Countries like congo,angola,Ghana,libya ad co..Africa was a battlefield then..They would have partnerd wit interested countries Produced weapons ad sell to rebels fighting for freedom.

The great scientists prof ezekwe. This man invented weapons that minced Nigeria troops to shreds.......i salute you sir...you are a great scientists without resolute

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upon all these,

how come the Biafrans still lost the war

Click here to see some of the engineering feats designed by Prof. Ezekwe and his team of Biafraan engineers and scientists.

https://www.nairaland.com/3314515/biafran-technology-inventions-display-umuahia

comos:
[s]upon all these,

how come the Biafrans still lost the war[/s]

Afonja and their stupid questions.

Very Brilliant fellow

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Prof Gordian later became the D.G of Nigeria Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) which produces all manners of things. Unfortunately, govt starves it of funds.

This Article is very sad because uou fail to give credit to wjom credit is due.
Ogbonigwe was the creation of Engr. EDMUND KAINE.

Do Your research.

This article is an excerpt from a book I, Jeff Unaegbu, wrote with Prof. Animalu on Prof. Gordian Ezekwe. The poster credited it wrongly to my friend and colleague, Chijioke Ngobili.